Very sad! I had no idea she had breast cancer.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 445 | July 17, 2020 12:29 PM |
Where is her religion now?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 13, 2020 6:21 AM |
Holy shit. That's terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 13, 2020 6:21 AM |
Wow, sad to hear that. Guess John Travolta doesn't have any excuse to stay in the closet now.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 13, 2020 6:22 AM |
R1 She was a hardcore Scieno. I suspect COS told John and Kelly not to reveal her cancer diagnosis.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 13, 2020 6:23 AM |
Will fatty come out now, indeed.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 13, 2020 6:23 AM |
Geez. I recall listening to an interview with her a few years ago and she seemed quite nice. Sorry, Kelly, this is sad and unfair.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 13, 2020 6:23 AM |
Celebrities die in threes- Naya Rivera, now Kelly Preston. Who will be the third death?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 13, 2020 6:26 AM |
Wonder if John Travolta will 'come out' now?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 13, 2020 6:27 AM |
Wow, that is sad and unexpected. They kept her illness under wraps.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 13, 2020 6:27 AM |
Another Elizabeth Edwards situation.
Kelly took hormones to get pregnant at age 47.
The result: A baby and death from breast cancer.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | July 13, 2020 6:27 AM |
R12: Yep! The older you are, the worse the cancer risk.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 13, 2020 6:29 AM |
I was just getting ready to post that, r12. I remember at the time thinking that pregnancy wasn't a good idea.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 13, 2020 6:30 AM |
She’s the first gentile woman in Hollywood to die of breast cancer in a long time.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 13, 2020 6:31 AM |
What did she do, treat it with vitamins?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 13, 2020 6:32 AM |
I immediately thought of her late 40's pregnancy after her son died and wondered how that would affect her.
There are so many stories of women getting cancer a few years after taking hormones and other IVF.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 13, 2020 6:33 AM |
Wow that's really sad. Whatever their relationship was I always liked her. She was in a lot of movies I loved growing up.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 13, 2020 6:34 AM |
I forgot they had another kid 10 years ago. So that's a kid who will grow up without a mom. That's sad all around. John's first priority should be taking care of that kid. There's no time for coming out or any related activities.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 13, 2020 6:37 AM |
Well if anything good comes from this (never could stand her myself, but whatever), maybe this will free John to come out FINALLY!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 13, 2020 6:37 AM |
[quote] Who will be the third death?
It will be Wilford Brimley, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 13, 2020 6:38 AM |
John/ r20, we are so sorry for your loss. Our condolences.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 13, 2020 6:39 AM |
It wasn't hormones, she was afflicted with cancerous body thetans.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 13, 2020 6:39 AM |
I hope not R23, I enjoy following him on Twitter.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 13, 2020 6:40 AM |
One of my friends took fertility drugs and had a kid. Diagnosed last year in her early 30's with breast cancer. No family history.
I have secretly suspected there is a tie between those drugs and breast/ovarian/female cancers in women.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 13, 2020 6:41 AM |
[quote] Kelly Preston Dead!
Let me guess? An ill-fated boat trip to Lake Piru?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 13, 2020 6:42 AM |
I remember years ago they used to prescribe estrogen to menopausal woman. But it led to a rise in breast cancer. So it’s not done anymore
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 13, 2020 6:46 AM |
I'll need a nice young "assistant" to help me cope with her death
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 13, 2020 6:54 AM |
Also note: Elizabeth Edwards and Kelly Preston were both diagnosed with breast cancer 8 years after fertility treatments.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 13, 2020 6:55 AM |
R29: Exactly. Yet, estrogen therapy is given to older pre-menopausal women during pregnancy to help maintain the pregnancy/avoid miscarriage. There is definitely a link.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 13, 2020 6:58 AM |
Perhaps there should be an age cut off for pregnancy. Of course that’ll never work because people don’t like to be told what to do.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 13, 2020 7:03 AM |
I no fan of Scientology, but I did meet Kelly Preston once a few years ago and she was very nice. Same goes for John Travolta - very nice person.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 13, 2020 7:03 AM |
What was NOT om her iPod?
Stayin' Alive
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 13, 2020 7:04 AM |
I loved her in “The Americans” and “Witness.”
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 13, 2020 7:04 AM |
Wow... I know it shouldn’t but it still surprises me that a woman with her medical and financial resources would die from breast cancer. Cancer is a sneaky bastard.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 13, 2020 7:05 AM |
I read on Datalounge that she had a son with her first husband Kevin Gage. The son is severely disabled and lives with relatives. He is not listed as one of her children on her Wikipedia page, nor on Gage's Wikipedia page. Google found this:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | July 13, 2020 7:11 AM |
Oh that's sad to hear. They have had quite a sad family when you think about it with the son also dying.
I guess Travolta will be able to come out now?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 13, 2020 7:12 AM |
Sad. I met Kelly in the late 90’s on the set of “for the love of the game”. Not gonna lie, she was kind of a bitch and Kevin Costner was super sweet to me. But I’m female and I was in my early 20’s back then and cute. So it was more of a woman being bitchy to other women vibe rather than “I’m a famous actress bitchy vibe”
Still so sad to hear. She has a young son, and she was still rather young. I wonder if Scientology allows for cancer treatments? Do they approve of chemo?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 13, 2020 7:14 AM |
Travolta is now free to marry Kirstie Alley
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 13, 2020 7:15 AM |
His wife died and all you can think about is whether he's coming out ?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 13, 2020 7:16 AM |
The third is Lisa Marie Presley's son, he killed himself today
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 13, 2020 7:18 AM |
I’m also thinking about a sloppy joe, r45.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 13, 2020 7:18 AM |
Exactly, R45. Some people have no compassion at all.
[quote] Where is her religion now?
You realize everyone dies, right? Regardless of whether or not you believe in religion.
I always got the impression that Kelly was a nice person. She seemed sweet.
My favorite movie of hers was "View From the Top" with Kelly Preston, GOOP, and Christina Applegate.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 13, 2020 7:18 AM |
Candy Spelling eeks out one more death in just three weeks...first, her neighbour Steve Bing, then Naya, then Elvis' grandson, and now Kelly.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 13, 2020 7:20 AM |
R38 there is a specific type of breast cancer that comes on quickly and is very aggressive. Sometimes all the money in the world for medical treatments won’t help.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 13, 2020 7:21 AM |
She was cute in View From the Top...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | July 13, 2020 7:22 AM |
Well, just look at all the cunts in this thread!
R45 & R48.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 13, 2020 7:23 AM |
She seems like a nice lady that drank too much of the kool aid and followed her gay husband down a very dark path in a death cult. Travolta ruined her life. Very sad.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 13, 2020 7:24 AM |
[quote] The third is Lisa Marie Presley's son, he killed himself today
Interesting that he had a connection to Scientology as well.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 13, 2020 7:24 AM |
Kelly was 57 and her son, Benjamin, is nine (9). So, she was ~ 48 when she gave birth. That's crazy. I wonder why they didn't use a surrogate.
John Travolta, IMO, seems like a very kind man and I would guess he was very good & generous to Kelly Preston.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 13, 2020 7:26 AM |
I think she might have had a bigger career in the 90s if it hadn't been for her uncanny resemblance to Meg Ryan, a much bigger star at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 13, 2020 7:26 AM |
Wow. Props to her for keeping it private instead of famewhoring for sympathy. It was cool of her to let her Johnny fuck guys throughout their marriage.
Rip.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 13, 2020 7:28 AM |
John will be in need of some massage therapists now. Females need not apply.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 13, 2020 7:31 AM |
Very sad. She was a beautiful woman.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 13, 2020 7:31 AM |
would it not be sad had she been ugly? If our Glenn died, would it not be sad?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 13, 2020 7:33 AM |
Having another baby at 47 was a huge mistake. If they were so set on it, they should have used a surrogate or adopted.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 13, 2020 7:34 AM |
She was a very loyal beard.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 13, 2020 7:34 AM |
I would think if anything Travolta has even less reason to come out now. He no longer has to keep up the facade of this marriage, which much have been exhausting, and can just play the role of grieving widower, which is a heck of a lot easier. Plus people and the press will feel so bad (understandably so) that they’ll just kindly “look the other way.” Trying to out someone grieving for his wife of 30 years won’t look good.
Still this is really sad and I’m genuinely shocked. I was actually watching the Grease/ONJ Reelz tonight so a little weird — but I have to say closeted or not Travolta always seemed like a genuinely sweet and generous guy. This must be hell.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 13, 2020 7:35 AM |
The tabloids have been vindictice questioning her marriage. There have been so many times ive been the the supermarket and see a magazine with the headline that their marriage was a sham. It must have been very huerful and embarrasing for her.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 13, 2020 7:36 AM |
R8 Carl Reiner died recently
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 13, 2020 7:37 AM |
R60 Well Glenn's career is dead so she may as well be.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 13, 2020 7:39 AM |
R43, Scientology allows cancer treatments and chemo. However, there is definitely a big subculture of Scientologists who won’t take drugs at all, no Advil, no aspirin, and they’ll only see naturopathic and chiropractic treatments. It’s not a rule in the Church, it’s just a weird culture thing. But not all Scientologists are like that.
I knew one Scientologist who died trying to cure her stomach cancer naturally, even though the local Scientologists had advised her to get conventional medical treatment.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 13, 2020 7:40 AM |
[quote]Celebrities die in threes- Naya Rivera, now Kelly Preston.
Naya Rivera is “disappeared.”
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 13, 2020 7:40 AM |
This was shocking after LMP son's suicide. They really kept her illness on the downlow.
As far as her fertility treatments, there really is no way to know for sure if it caused the cancer. Millions of women have taken the same drugs, if a large % were getting cancer, I think there would be more attention and research about it.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 13, 2020 7:42 AM |
[quote]I read on Datalounge that she had a son with her first husband Kevin Gage. The son is severely disabled and lives with relatives.
Kee-rist!
She must have had some real fucked up genes to keep shitting out those retarded babies.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 13, 2020 7:43 AM |
She has been in soooo many movies. Feel bad for John Travolta and their kods.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 13, 2020 7:47 AM |
I don't know if it's easing up now (after 10 years), but the survivor's guilt of seeing others die from cancer when my treatment was successful, used to tear me apart. I'd think, "Why take a happy mother of four young kids, when you could've taken me, an unmarried man with no dependents? Sure, my friends and others would've missed me, but that's nothing compared to those who don't make it that leave an enormous hole in people's lives."* There is never a moment that I'm not greatful for surviving Stage IV Non Hodgkin Lymphoma (there is no stage V). I try not to take things for granted. And I don't ever dine out on the experience.
And if it wasn't for the truly egregious comments made upthread, I might have a problem with sharing the conclusion I came to. But I don't have a problem sharing it. *The conslusion I came to is that God is a fucking cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 13, 2020 7:51 AM |
R67 yeah but what about their son? Didn’t they refuse drugs/treatments for him and that’s why he died?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 13, 2020 7:54 AM |
From this thread, we can safely assume that JABBA will be next to go then since she had her baby at 51.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 13, 2020 7:56 AM |
R74, they didn’t refuse the son medication. He had been on Depakote for seizures, but it had stopped working, so they (with a doctor’s consultation) took him off and put him on some ketogenic diet.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 13, 2020 8:03 AM |
The word pretty was invented for Kelly Preston. She was like Elizabeth Montgomery and few others. She was a pretty pretty girl and woman. So pretty you might not notice how talented she was. Not sexy or even beautiful. Just a very pretty girl. Charlie Sheen shot her once you know. I think Travolta loved her very much. In whatever way they had. There's more than one way to love. I find this news sad.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | July 13, 2020 8:08 AM |
That's exactly the way I feel about the whole situation, R77.
Just the way you said it.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 13, 2020 8:12 AM |
It's not really a secret, R27, there have been quite a few studies. The lower doses are supposed to be safer, which is probably what you mean. But I remember back in the 1980s when my mom was on hormones, she had to stop because it gave her blood clots, and there wasn't even any talk of giving her a lower dose, it was either take it and risk cancer or suffer through menopause.
No idea how much you have to take to get pregnant, but it can't be a safe amount, especially when you're on the verge of menopause as Kelly was at 47.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 13, 2020 8:15 AM |
Someone please explain what the Candy Spelling murder meme is about? I am old and out of the loop and require assistance.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 13, 2020 8:17 AM |
Her last movie is in post-production. Interesting cast. Can't be worse than her next-to-last movie, "Gotti"...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 82 | July 13, 2020 8:20 AM |
My sister had a total hysterectomy at 40 due to ovarian tumors, and even though she's cancer-free now, she can't take estrogen to deal with the symptoms of early-onset menopause caused by the surgery. She's even supposed to avoid soy because of plant estrogens. Too many hormones can really fuck you up.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 13, 2020 8:20 AM |
Hormonal therapy and IVF are not just given to premenopausal women to increase chances of conceiving. There is a cottage industry of convincing women that if they don’t conceive within a year of trying, that help is simple in the form of hormones. So many women in their late 20s to their 30s undergo these treatments it’s not even unusual anymore. I have patients who have had 2-3 kids each that way and they’re only in their mid-30s. When I did my women’s health rotation at an oncology clinic, there were women diagnosed with BC a few years to more than a decade after undergoing hormonal and/ or IVF treatment.
These treatments have become a status symbol no joke. It’s not premenopausal women who are biggest consumers but women in their 30s.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 13, 2020 8:20 AM |
R77 I totally agree with that last part, actually. In whatever way it was (joking aside for a minute) I believe they did love each other. As great companions or whatever it was.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 13, 2020 8:24 AM |
R77 I was just going to note that she survived being shot (and fucked) by Chuck Sheen, only to go out like this? Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 13, 2020 8:38 AM |
R64 - their marriage [bold]WAS[/bold] a sham. For whatever reason - they stayed together - but it was a sham.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 13, 2020 8:41 AM |
R84 You bring up an interesting social dilemma. The problem is women don’t want to accept that their healthiest, most fertile years are between 16-35. But with most women pursuing careers, they’ve pushed it to 30-45 and are quick to resort to medical interventions at the get go if they encounter even the slightest delay. That’s not natural to humankind, never has been until recently. Anecdotally, it seems rather likely these fertility treatments increase the risk of cancer and autism in their babies. But we as a society won’t reevaluate this phenomenon because women think they can have it all. But it seems to come with a huge price.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | July 13, 2020 8:41 AM |
I have never heard the Charlie Sheen story.
He SHOT her? What in the fuck happened there??
No wonder she didn't mind Travolta's dalliances.
If she had to choose between being a psycho druggie sex addict, or a quiet closet case, I guess she decided that she would go with the closet case.
The real question is, why didn't she just find herself a regular straight guy?
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 13, 2020 8:47 AM |
Who on earth goes through a rotation working at a women's health clinic, and presumably has a medical degree of some sort, but doesn't know the difference between "perimenopause" and not "premenopause"?
The women you're talking about in their 20s and 30s ARE in premenopause. You've confused them with perimenopausal women in their 40s and 50s.
What you mean to say is that "it's not perimenopausal women who are the biggest consumers of hormone therapy, but premenopausal women in their 20s and 30s."
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 13, 2020 8:47 AM |
Anyone ever thought she might be gay too? Or that Travolta is legit bi? They obviously had some kind of understanding.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 13, 2020 8:48 AM |
[quote]Candy Spelling eeks out one more death
Oh, dear! Oh, DEAR, oh, dear!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 13, 2020 8:54 AM |
[quote] Anyone ever thought she might be gay too? Or that Travolta is legit bi? They obviously had some kind of understanding.
That's definitely a possibility.
Especially knowing now that both Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards are both bisexual, as well.
Maybe that's why Kelly was with Charlie. We already know that he has fucked around with guys.
The only difference would be that both Travolta and Preston were much more discreet about their affairs.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 13, 2020 8:55 AM |
R90 have you ever heard of autocorrect? I’m operating on autopilot now on my 4th night in a row working inpatient as one of providers on call. But thanks for pointing it out correctly though you could have done so without being a presumptive asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 13, 2020 8:57 AM |
[quote]I remember years ago they used to prescribe estrogen to menopausal woman. But it led to a rise in breast cancer. So it’s not done anymore
They still do.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 13, 2020 9:09 AM |
She also lived with /C1ooney so she had plenty of practice looking the other way before John.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 13, 2020 9:09 AM |
Recent Instagram photos of her, both on her account and Ella's, show her wearing an obvious wig. She looks like she'd been going through treatments.
It's a hell of a thing, finding out you have cancer as the parent of a young child. I imagine, having lost her own father at a young age, that she was even more aware of what her son would go through without her.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 13, 2020 9:15 AM |
I wonder how Nikki Blonsky from the movie Hairspray feels. She must have known Kelly Preston very well.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 13, 2020 9:17 AM |
Dropping the body. Billion years more to go.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 13, 2020 9:18 AM |
If she was a strong Scientologist, she was not nice. I felt like she forced their last child on John. Normal people were not fond of her or John. I am a fan of John and have seen most of his films but I felt like Kelly was bought and paid for, same as Katie Holmes.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 13, 2020 9:22 AM |
R73 For what it’s worth- A) glad you survived and B) someone once told me that when you say something like a mother of four taken from cancer and you wonder why you as a single person with no dependents wasn’t taken they told me this – perhaps that woman was going to have something really horrific happened in her life and she was taken to spare her that. Probably not true but it made me feel a little better.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | July 13, 2020 9:23 AM |
I loved her in Spellbinder. An underrated 1980s gym.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | July 13, 2020 9:23 AM |
This is a toxic fallacy, R88. Most women don’t have the financial wherewithal to support a child until they are over 30 at least. Not to mention, they are procreating with feckless men who delay the responsibility of marriage and fatherhood as long as they can. And good luck getting any decent job is you’ve don’t have a college degree or two.
If later parenthood is driving up these health complications, then we as a society need to make it easier to be a young parent, not blame women for “choices” they are forced into.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 13, 2020 9:25 AM |
Agreed, R103. In the 50s and 60s and even into the 70s, families could live on one paycheck. That meant they could have children younger, before the woman's fertility started to plummet. No way that's possible today unless the breadwinner is a surgeon or a stockbroker or something.
I remember reading a fertility doctor saying once that if he had one bit of advice for couples, it would be to have children as young as they possibly could and save themselves years of expensive treatments that might end in heartbreak. But who the fuck can afford to have kids in their 20s?
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 13, 2020 9:28 AM |
“Millions of women have taken the same drugs, if a large % were getting cancer, I think there would be more attention and research about it.”
Oh R69, you sweet summer child!
by Anonymous | reply 105 | July 13, 2020 9:29 AM |
R89 my guess would be fame and money. Some want to marry into that at any cost.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 13, 2020 9:29 AM |
'And good luck getting any decent job is you’ve don’t have a college degree or two.'
You were an English major, no?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | July 13, 2020 9:30 AM |
No, they failed me for putting an ‘s’ where there should have been an ‘f’.
Thanks for pointing out this egregious error R107 - you’re not at all an asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 13, 2020 9:33 AM |
She stayed with John for the money. I knew she had a daughter but I had no idea they had another son. It was all IVF and she was a selfish cunt. Two boys with birth defects....too many drugs, maybe?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 13, 2020 9:35 AM |
R103 well that and (like you said) getting men to commit. Regardless of where couples stand on money, the amount of years wasted on woman waiting for men to pop the question puts just as much a delay on conceiving as the job/financial issue.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 13, 2020 9:35 AM |
R109 good lord she’s dead. You didn’t know her and I’m sure ur a saint to throw stones.
Fuck some of you are demons.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 13, 2020 9:36 AM |
I knew about her having cancer a year ago from one of my friends who was treating her.
It was metastatic and she didn't go down the vitamin route..
Two years is a pretty good survival rate for that kind of cancer
by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 13, 2020 9:39 AM |
r108 Your venom in calling me an asshole would suggest I hit a delicate nerve. Your overreacting would suggest insecurity. You're not at all a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 13, 2020 9:41 AM |
Most celebs wouldnt be able to run to instagram fast enough to get some attention and sympathy for having cancer. Good for her for not doing that and dying with dignity.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 13, 2020 9:41 AM |
OMG! I grew up loving her! No!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 13, 2020 9:56 AM |
Fish are not interested in sex so they don't really care what their husband does sexually with others, as long as the cash flow to the fish continues. But the moment that cash flow is threatened, the fish has the divorce lawyer on speed dial.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 13, 2020 9:57 AM |
[quote]He SHOT her? What in the fuck happened there??
Charlie didn’t shoot her. She was in the bathroom moving a pair of his jeans and his gun fell out of the pocket, went off and the bullet hit the toilet. Her arm was cut on a piece of the shrapnel from the toilet.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | July 13, 2020 10:02 AM |
Man, he had to bury a son. Now a wife. JESUS
by Anonymous | reply 118 | July 13, 2020 10:10 AM |
John Travoooooooooltaaaaaaaaa
by Anonymous | reply 119 | July 13, 2020 10:24 AM |
He also buried the woman who was original mom on Eight is Enough.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | July 13, 2020 10:31 AM |
People keep liking my post at R81 but no one is actually going to answer the question, are they?
by Anonymous | reply 121 | July 13, 2020 10:34 AM |
It'll be interesting to see if Scientology even issues a statement about her death. They seem to like to cover up bad things that happen to their VIPs.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | July 13, 2020 10:36 AM |
Charlie Sheen seems to be at the center of all bad things, eh?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | July 13, 2020 10:41 AM |
R103 R104 It’s never been easy to afford children but people did so in previous generations because their material expectations were lower.
Everyone nowadays has the latest iphone, all sorts of streaming services, eat out all the time, a baby BMW, designer bags and shoes, international trips, babymoons, professional photographs for every milestone, expensive weddings, constant trips to the salon (highlights, nails, brows), etc. When I was a middle class kid in the 70s and 80s, my family had one Ford car, an average house, one TV with an antenna, hand me down clothes, a mishmash of cheap furniture and grandma’s pieces (certainly not following the latest home trends), mom did her own hair with a box of Lilt, road trip vacations, dinner out maybe once a month to the local Chinese place or diner, we took a few family portraits at Sears and weddings were often potlucks in people’s backyards. Women and men sacrificed their material desires to have families.
Men were also willing to get married because women didn’t spread their legs wide open on first dates. Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
Also, having a baby can be as expensive as you want it to be or as cheap as you want it to be. It doesn’t say anywhere that you absolutely NEED a $1000 stroller, a Gucci diaper bag, and all the other accoutrements that seems to be de rigueur amongst the middle class frauen of today.
But I digress...RIP Kelly Preston
by Anonymous | reply 124 | July 13, 2020 10:43 AM |
That's so sad, but the PEOPLE references to her and John's love story made me want to vomit. They were probably best friends at the most.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | July 13, 2020 10:45 AM |
I knew about her having cancer a year ago from one of my friends who was treating her.
Your friend is a cunt and did something illegal by telling you, they should lose their job
by Anonymous | reply 126 | July 13, 2020 10:48 AM |
There is some truth in what you say, R124, but it's also true that the minimum wage of $1.60 would be equivalent to $11.76 today, far above the standard $7.50. The cost of a 4-year public university in 1968 was $329 a year. That would be $2323 in today's dollars. But the ACTUAL cost of today's tuition is $10, 230, an increase of 340%. In a similar vein, the cost of housing has risen 744% since 1968.
It's easy to blame the materialistic weakness of today's average person for why they can't afford a house or children, and why they are so mired in student loan debt. But things are a FUCKTON more expensive than they were 50 years ago, and that wouldn't be corrected by the average person giving up their cell phone or their mani-pedis.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | July 13, 2020 10:56 AM |
*The minimum wage of $1.60 in 1968
by Anonymous | reply 128 | July 13, 2020 10:56 AM |
Oh, and as for the cost of just having a baby, that ran you around $150 in the 1950s. If those rates had stayed consistent adjusting for inflation, having a baby should cost around $2000 today. In fact, a normal birth without complications is about $10,000. Add in a c-section or an extended hospital stay for any reason, and those costs will quickly skyrocket. If you have health insurance you'll pay less, of course. But about 10% of the US population has no health insurance whatsoever.
So, yeah, having a baby can be cheap as you like--if you don't need a c-section, if the baby isn't born prematurely, if the child doesn't have allergies or need braces or eyeglasses or any of the other 1000 things a child could end up needing. If you have decent health insurance and don't get laid off, if if if if if if if.
The social safety net is full of holes. And that is the fault of the greedy assholes at the top of the pyramid, not the poor working shmucks at the bottom.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | July 13, 2020 11:07 AM |
R81, maybe it's one of those DL memes no one actually knows the origin of. Like the Duchess of Sussex's fans being called Sugars.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | July 13, 2020 11:07 AM |
Very sad. Whatever their marriage was, they seemed to really love each other.
RIP Kelly.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | July 13, 2020 11:10 AM |
Weird that Kelly is dead while ONJ, who’s battled breast cancer for decades and has looked close to death for several years, is still kicking
by Anonymous | reply 132 | July 13, 2020 11:15 AM |
Weird that Kelly is dead while ONJ, who’s battled breast cancer for decades and has looked close to death for several years, is still kicking
I got physical in the 80's...that's why I'm still here
by Anonymous | reply 133 | July 13, 2020 11:20 AM |
Bewilders me why old gay men feel they are qualified, or feel the need to discuss what women do with their bodies, how old they are when they have children etc. etc. None of your business.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | July 13, 2020 11:22 AM |
Tom Cruise couldn't save her?
by Anonymous | reply 135 | July 13, 2020 11:23 AM |
Are we sure it was breast cancer?
by Anonymous | reply 136 | July 13, 2020 11:23 AM |
I feel for her family, but we know what causes this.
Don't screw with your hormones, ladies .
by Anonymous | reply 137 | July 13, 2020 11:24 AM |
[quote]John Travolta, IMO, seems like a very kind man and I would guess he was very good & generous to Kelly Preston.
This can get lost if you read about John Travolta on DL which can make you think he's the secret offspring of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Other than his not-so-secret proclivities, John is one of the most beloved men in the industry, especially by secondary cast and crew. A genuinely nice guy, and not just for show.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | July 13, 2020 11:25 AM |
[quote]Men were also willing to get married because women didn’t spread their legs wide open on first dates.
Hey, Puritan thread derailer, can you make your own thread and stop stinking up this one please?
by Anonymous | reply 139 | July 13, 2020 11:36 AM |
[quote]Your friend is a cunt and did something illegal by telling you, they should lose their job
I hate all of the assholes who work in the medical profession who blab to their friends about celebrity patients. Someone did the same when Mary Kay Bergman died and it was disgusting.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | July 13, 2020 11:38 AM |
There's a nurse who blabbed about Keanu Reeves saying he's not heterosexual when donating blood. Shameful.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | July 13, 2020 11:48 AM |
I hadn’t heard that about Keanu’s nurse. HOT! When did that come out? I wonder if she creamed her panties when he said that.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | July 13, 2020 11:55 AM |
isn’t it John’s other long term relationship with a woman also died on him with breast cancer? what’s the odd?
by Anonymous | reply 143 | July 13, 2020 12:13 PM |
We ask that donations be given to The Masseur School - a worthy charity training men in naturist massage.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | July 13, 2020 12:16 PM |
[quote]I would think if anything Travolta has even less reason to come out now.
I agree. I don't think he'll be coming out any time soon.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | July 13, 2020 12:18 PM |
Breast cancer and tumors feed off of estrogen. People with breast cancer take anti-estrogens as part of their treatment
Fertility treatments are composed of pumping a woman full of hormones such as estrogen. In a woman over the age of 40, her body is beginning to make less estrogen. It's part of the life cycle. The body is preparing for eventual menopause. Pumping yourself full of hormones trying to trick your body is a recipe for disaster (cancer). When the pregnancy is over the body crashes from and abnormal cells/free radicals are created. Some of them turn into cancer
by Anonymous | reply 146 | July 13, 2020 12:18 PM |
R81 Candy Spelling is at the center of the Hollywood cabala from her perch of power and wealth high above everyone else in the penthouse “Sky Manor” in Century City. There she acts as puppet mistress from her unassumingly named “gift wrapping room,” which is really a high tech brain center where she controls most aspects of the entertainment industry including who lives and dies.
This is quite obvious because amongst those deaths is Tori Spelling’s career, and why would someone so ultimately talented as Tori not have flourishing fame and unlimited money unless her mother, hellbent on her humiliation and destruction, be manipulating the powers that be to keep her down. This is all due to Tori basically spitting in her face after Candy planned, produced, and broadcasted her multimillion dollar first wedding at The Manor only to have her dump her husband fifteen months later for a married third tiered Canadian actor in a Hallmark movie of the week.
Candy, who has also always been proud of her chic, slim, fit figure and that of her children, also holds it against Tori for allowing her grandchildren to be fat and slovenly. So each day she goes to her “kennel room” and picks up one of her many cloned teacup lap dogs, which she holds and strokes menacingly standing on her well appointed balcony looking down at the world in her best Mr. Burns interpretation as she plots how she will ruin the lives of those figuratively and literally below her.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | July 13, 2020 12:34 PM |
At this point I couldn’t pick out and distinguish between Kelly Preston and Mimi Rogers or tell where John Travolta’s and Nicholas Cage’s career begins or ends.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | July 13, 2020 12:38 PM |
Loved her in her 80s films. She was really good in the crime flick 52 Pickup, which co-starred the late Vanity.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 149 | July 13, 2020 12:43 PM |
With any luck, L Ron Hubbard was waiting for her when she crossed over and proceeded to violently & brutally fuck her brains out - that would be her heaven after a lifetime of being a beard
by Anonymous | reply 150 | July 13, 2020 12:47 PM |
“You’re Jerry MaFuckenguire”
by Anonymous | reply 151 | July 13, 2020 12:48 PM |
The dance scene between Kelly and John in The Experts is classic.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 152 | July 13, 2020 12:49 PM |
[quote]Weird that Kelly is dead while ONJ, who’s battled breast cancer for decades and has looked close to death for several years, is still kicking
Agree. Breast cancer survival length is usually much longer than two years, unless it’s found at a very late stage.
I suspect she might have refused some treatments. Who knows what Scientology “allows”?
by Anonymous | reply 153 | July 13, 2020 12:54 PM |
Was she the one that the nerdy boys in Weird Science created?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | July 13, 2020 1:04 PM |
5-Time Golden Raspberry Award Nominee (1-Time Winner) Kelly Preston, Scientologist & wife of masseur enthusiast John Travolta, is dead and you Queens (and Fraus) are sidetracked talking about IVF and the socioeconomics of modern day child rearing.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | July 13, 2020 1:05 PM |
R156 Well at least she was recognized by her peers in her lifetime.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | July 13, 2020 1:06 PM |
[quote] I’m operating on autopilot now on my 4th night in a row working inpatient as one of providers on call.
Honey, get off the cross. Others need the wood.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | July 13, 2020 1:07 PM |
Her husband had a fat cock and a nice ass, but she couldn’t live forever.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 160 | July 13, 2020 1:10 PM |
I thought clams didn't believe in cancer. Or it was a sign you were a traitor clam or some nonsense.
Does this mean John will admit his cult is all a fake?
of course not, but I wish someone would ask him to his face.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | July 13, 2020 1:10 PM |
R33: “ Perhaps there should be an age cut off for pregnancy. Of course that’ll never work because people don’t like to be told what to do..”
There already is an age cutoff for pregnancy. Mother Nature built one in. But since you’re 100% correct that people don’t like being told what to do, they try to sneak around it. And then this happens.
I do know of women in the olden days getting pregnant during that last explosion of fertility before it all shuts down, though. But that’s just luck (or the opposite), and not trying to cheat the system.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | July 13, 2020 1:11 PM |
Y’all are making poor Candy 🍭 out to be some type of spree killer. Haven’t you bitches ever heard of coincidences!!
by Anonymous | reply 163 | July 13, 2020 1:13 PM |
They found her right away, but Naya is STILL MISSING!!!! Why?? DO I EVEN HAVE TO TELL YOU!!!
by Anonymous | reply 164 | July 13, 2020 1:13 PM |
[R124] Don't need the whole bull when you can get the sausage for free, either, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | July 13, 2020 1:17 PM |
Too bad a gay man didn't start/title this thread. Fraus ruin eberything.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | July 13, 2020 1:17 PM |
Meg Ryan isn’t nearly as pretty as Kelly.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | July 13, 2020 1:17 PM |
Loved her drastically different look in the deliciously campy The Perfect Bride...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 168 | July 13, 2020 1:18 PM |
Someone posted earlier that estrogen is given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage. Synthetic estrogen during pregnancy created a health disaster in the 70s and 80s. The children of women given these drugs in the 50s had malformed organs and cancer. Progesterone has been given to discourage miscarriages but not widely.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | July 13, 2020 1:20 PM |
[quote]Was she the one that the nerdy boys in Weird Science created?
No, that was Kelly LeBrock, ex Mrs. Steven Seagal.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | July 13, 2020 1:20 PM |
I definitely didn't have her in my 2020 death pool.
They really kept this one under wraps.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | July 13, 2020 1:27 PM |
Back in the 80s she was in long term relationships with Charlie Sheen when he was hot and George Clooney when he was hot. She must have had some great stories.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | July 13, 2020 1:28 PM |
All the top, top Gold ⭐️ Medal Beards are gathering in L.A. to honor a beloved Legend.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | July 13, 2020 1:30 PM |
Travolta kills all the people he loves
by Anonymous | reply 175 | July 13, 2020 1:33 PM |
R172 She survived Charlie Sheen when he shot her in the arm, but she didn't survive this.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | July 13, 2020 1:36 PM |
[quote][R172] She survived Charlie Sheen when he shot her in the arm, but she didn't survive this
He didn’t shoot her. See R117.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | July 13, 2020 1:37 PM |
I am surprised by how much this news moved me.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | July 13, 2020 1:39 PM |
She had a hairy bush, but she couldn’t live forever.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 179 | July 13, 2020 1:43 PM |
R117 That's the official story Kelly told to protect Charlie.
Those who knew the couple tell a different story.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | July 13, 2020 1:44 PM |
Death brings out the best and the worst of DataLounge.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | July 13, 2020 1:54 PM |
Everyone gives John shit for being closeted but the ‘70s/‘80s were a very different time, and coming out then would have had major consequences for his career. After he was married and with kids, what good would coming out do? It was already a not-so-open secret anyways, so what was the point of John coming out before Kelly died?
by Anonymous | reply 183 | July 13, 2020 1:59 PM |
R183 Maybe it had to do with him getting caught kissing his male best friend and/or all the accounts of his massage adventures.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | July 13, 2020 2:02 PM |
Kelly almost got the Sandra Bullock part in “Crash’. When they passed her up for Bullock she was really nasty with Pail Haggis.
This is if I’m remembering right. I think Preston and Travolta were going to produce it at one point too.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | July 13, 2020 2:02 PM |
[quote] Well if anything good comes from this (never could stand her myself, but whatever), maybe this will free John to come out FINALLY!
There is no good that can come from this. Her children are without their mother. Travolta coming out at 60+ would be a non-event.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | July 13, 2020 2:07 PM |
R29 they still prescribe estrogen to women.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | July 13, 2020 2:10 PM |
"Never! Stop! Fucking! Me!"
She was great in Jerry McGuire, very memorable.
RIP
by Anonymous | reply 188 | July 13, 2020 2:10 PM |
They had the second son because they believe he’s Jett reincarnated. That’s how crazy they are.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | July 13, 2020 2:12 PM |
I remember her brief uncredited part in Waiting to Exhale as the mistress of Angela Bassett’s husband.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 190 | July 13, 2020 2:24 PM |
[quote]I do know of women in the olden days getting pregnant during that last explosion of fertility before it all shuts down, though.
This used to be very common back in the days when birth control wasn't as reliable as it is now, or Catholics who didn't use BC and tried the rhythm method instead. Lots of women had surprise babies in their 40s. Their other kids were teenagers or in their 20s and already out of the house.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | July 13, 2020 2:25 PM |
I wonder if Kirstie Alley knew. She was battling cancer. Gayle King expressed shock so obviously Oprah didn’t know
by Anonymous | reply 192 | July 13, 2020 2:27 PM |
She should have just faked a pregnancy at age 50.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | July 13, 2020 2:35 PM |
Change-of-life babies are definitely a thing: My grandmother had one. But that was after 9--yes, NINE--previous pregnancies. Women who've already had many children have already primed the pump, so to speak, which is why natural conception is possible in their 40s, but even then there are limits. For women who are new to pregnancy, fertility starts degrading after 35 and plummets after 40. According to an article I read by a top fertility doctor, in 30 years of practice he'd never seen a woman conceive with her own eggs after age 46. Women having babies after that are using donor eggs and pumping themselves full of hormones in order to hold the pregnancy, with often tragic results.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | July 13, 2020 2:36 PM |
Maybe I'm mis-remembering this, but I think the rumor was that she used a fertilized egg she had stored and got pregnant without telling John.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | July 13, 2020 2:43 PM |
Nobody should have bio kids after about 45. There are too many risk factors. It's not just women either. A child born to an older father is far more likely have schizophrenia or be on the spectrum.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | July 13, 2020 2:45 PM |
I'm so sorry :( RIP Kelly
by Anonymous | reply 197 | July 13, 2020 2:50 PM |
Has Kelly Ripa commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | July 13, 2020 2:53 PM |
Has Leah Remini commented?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | July 13, 2020 2:55 PM |
Very sad news. I always liked Kelly Preston
by Anonymous | reply 200 | July 13, 2020 2:55 PM |
This is so shocking, she's only 57. She was a very decent human being. I feel sorry for John and his kids. Just terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | July 13, 2020 2:57 PM |
My grandmother also had a change of life baby in her 40s. My uncle was about the same age as my older brother
by Anonymous | reply 202 | July 13, 2020 2:57 PM |
Leah Reminisce has seemed to always have a lot of love for the Travoltas. She has been much harder on Tom Cruise and other celebrity Scientologists. She says John is one of the nicest guys.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | July 13, 2020 2:57 PM |
I also follow Celebitchy and those bitches won't touch Travolta love of some dick with a 10 ft pole. They can only comment on how brave she's been. How does anyone with any self-respect ignore the facts (for 30 years) about her husband. Brave but a delusional scientologist.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | July 13, 2020 3:00 PM |
Scientology’s wallet really took a hit this weekend.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | July 13, 2020 3:01 PM |
R206 She wasn't making any money. Travolta will continue to fund them at 100%.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | July 13, 2020 3:05 PM |
Did she get the Jerry McGuire role with connections or as a bonus to signing on with the “church?”
by Anonymous | reply 208 | July 13, 2020 3:14 PM |
Not that I buy into Travolta's heterosexuality for a second but......
He's now been publicly associated with two women who died of breast cancer: Diana Hyland and Kelly Preston.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 209 | July 13, 2020 3:25 PM |
And the article I shared at R209.....seems to suggest the beginnings of his $ci No interests.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | July 13, 2020 3:25 PM |
Has Lily Tomlin commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 211 | July 13, 2020 3:28 PM |
Has Susan Dey commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 212 | July 13, 2020 3:29 PM |
As long as we're telling women not to fuck around with taking estrogen, will somebody please enlighten the MTFs? Thank you.
And BTW, there is an age limit on getting erections too, but you gentlemen seem to have found a way to get around that. Just sayin'.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | July 13, 2020 3:29 PM |
[quote]As long as we're telling women not to fuck around with taking estrogen, will somebody please enlighten the MTFs?
Why?
by Anonymous | reply 214 | July 13, 2020 3:30 PM |
[quote]As long as we're telling women not to fuck around with taking estrogen, will somebody please enlighten the MTFs?
Too bad nobody told Candy Darling.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | July 13, 2020 3:33 PM |
Has Ellen Travolta commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 216 | July 13, 2020 3:33 PM |
My grandpa's brother was a change of life surprise baby- but I've always suspected he was really the oldest daughter's child passed off as a younger sibling.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | July 13, 2020 3:39 PM |
My sister got pregnant at age 40 (almost 41) naturally and very quickly, according to her. They decided to have a baby, figured it would take a while and they planned to take some trips, etc. BAM, two weeks after deciding to “try,” she was pregnant. Easy pregnancy and no niece is the healthiest, greatest kid ever.
Our grandmother also had a baby in her 40s, but she had younger kids as well.
I guess people hear stories like this and think it will be easy to have kids later in life.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | July 13, 2020 3:51 PM |
R209 Not to mention ONJ waiting in the wings to die for years now. But then again Twist of Fate was poisonous to so many.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | July 13, 2020 3:55 PM |
[quote] But then again Twist of Fate was poisonous to so many.
GASP!
by Anonymous | reply 220 | July 13, 2020 3:57 PM |
Not to take a long tangent, but did we ever discuss Diana Hyland on the DL?
She had a young son when she got together with John who went on to be abused by his biological father, and apparently John had some role in raising him......did we discuss?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 221 | July 13, 2020 3:59 PM |
R126 I was just going to post something similar! Thats a HIPPA violation and that posters friend - if he/she were any sort of a decent medical professional wouldn't say a word to anyone about it. That is seriously fucked up.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | July 13, 2020 4:05 PM |
R112, let your friend know that he or she violated patient confidentiality and HIPAA laws by sharing that information with you. NOT COOL AT ALL. Jerry Maguire is one of my favorite movies and Kelly was very memorable in it. I feel for her family.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | July 13, 2020 4:05 PM |
Her real name is Kelly Palzis - she changed it to "Preston" when she was signed for the TV series "For Love and Honor"
by Anonymous | reply 224 | July 13, 2020 4:07 PM |
R221 We should also discuss along with that the very special episode of Eight is Enough where Tommy, Willie Ames, finds a long lost early Christmas present she bought for him.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | July 13, 2020 4:11 PM |
I forgot all about that late life child.
We've known about the link between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer for ages now. I practically begged my sister not to take it because the risks were well known but she always had to have the latest everything. She died during her second bout with breast cancer at a fairly early age despite excellent and aggressive treatment. It sounds like I'm still angry with her. Maybe I am.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | July 13, 2020 4:13 PM |
Has Susan Richardson commented yet?
by Anonymous | reply 227 | July 13, 2020 4:14 PM |
R224 I thought her real name was Kelly Smith?
by Anonymous | reply 228 | July 13, 2020 4:23 PM |
We did Christine together....
by Anonymous | reply 229 | July 13, 2020 4:29 PM |
E! Julia Rancid also did the years of hormones and had the baby and was diagnosed with it too.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | July 13, 2020 4:31 PM |
R126
I never repeated anything that I knew, still haven't.
She was being treated in Switzerland at the time.
My best friend died in 2009 at 60 of exactly the same cancer, I was hoping that treatment had improved.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | July 13, 2020 4:35 PM |
I was going to mention how Giuliana had a bout with breast cancer after taking lots of hormone treatments to have her son. Fortunately, she beat it.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | July 13, 2020 4:36 PM |
R230, Ghouliana Rancid had the baby via surrogate. But she was going through fertility treatments and may have had a miscarriage or two when she got diagnosed with breast cancer.
She should have just used a surrogate from the beginning. She was never going to have a successful pregnancy anyway, because she has an obvious eating disorder.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | July 13, 2020 4:36 PM |
R231 - it doesn't matter if you didn't repeat it (which you actually have somewhat here...) what matters is that your "friend" who is a medical professional disclosed that information - that is illegal and seriously fucked up.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | July 13, 2020 4:44 PM |
Her birth name is Kelly Smith. Her bio father drowned when she was three, and her mom subsequently married Peter Palzis, whose surname Kelly took. She is credited as “Kelly Palzis” in only a few of her earliest roles, including the 1983 Charles Bronson slasher 10 To Midnight.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 235 | July 13, 2020 4:45 PM |
[quote]Charlie didn’t shoot her. She was in the bathroom moving a pair of his jeans and his gun fell out of the pocket, went off and the bullet hit the toilet. Her arm was cut on a piece of the shrapnel from the toilet.
[quote]Those who knew the couple tell a different story.
Was she ever lucky!
by Anonymous | reply 236 | July 13, 2020 4:45 PM |
Ugh - Shannen Doherty will be next. I doubt she had any fertility treatments.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | July 13, 2020 4:47 PM |
She auditioned for the Brooke Shields role in The Blue Lagoon.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 238 | July 13, 2020 4:48 PM |
Was Isaac Hayes a Scientologist? He was close to the Travoltas and Kelly attended his memorial service.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 240 | July 13, 2020 4:51 PM |
Wow, 2 years is a really short time. Doctors can usually keep them alive longer than that, even once they turn metastatic (and she was treated at MD Anderson in Houston so she had access to the best and most cutting-edge treatments.) She must have had REALLY aggressive disease.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | July 13, 2020 4:52 PM |
R240, yes he was. I love his music, but yes.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | July 13, 2020 4:56 PM |
R241 that’s what I was thinking. Even ShanDo has been kicking around for 5 years and hers is no doubt bad too.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | July 13, 2020 4:57 PM |
Seeing her in their daughter’s Easter IG post is sad. RIP Kelly. Cancer is awful.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | July 13, 2020 5:07 PM |
How do we know for sure that she just didn’t become “problematic” and has been confined to Seaorg for the rest of her life? Kelly, send us a sign if they are holding you hostage somewhere!
by Anonymous | reply 247 | July 13, 2020 5:07 PM |
R244 - Shannon announced late June that she's stage 4. She doesn't have long.. I wouldn't be surprised if she's gone by Christmas.
As I said upthread There is a specific type of breast cancer that comes on suddenly and is very aggressive. Maybe she has that kind? Or maybe she didn't do chemo due to scientology? OR maybe it wasn't caught in time and it already spread to the point of no return. We just don't know.
As sad as this is, I will be more sad when Shannon passes.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | July 13, 2020 5:10 PM |
That is sad news about Shannon. That's 2 of the 90210 gang gone in middle age. One more and they'll be in Glee territory.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | July 13, 2020 5:12 PM |
[quote]We did Christine together
Pics please.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | July 13, 2020 5:13 PM |
[quote]Breast cancer and tumors feed off of estrogen.
There are many different types of breast cancer. Some feed on estrogen and/or other hormones (like progesterone) but many don’t. Hormones do NOT cause all breast cancers.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | July 13, 2020 5:15 PM |
[quote]Shannon announced late June that she's stage 4. She doesn't have long.. I wouldn't be surprised if she's gone by Christmas.
Is there any peer reviewed research that links, well, attitude and cancer?
Asking for a friend.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | July 13, 2020 5:17 PM |
I hope Candy Spelling will be there for Shannon in her hours of need.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | July 13, 2020 5:19 PM |
Isaac Hayes was a hardcore scientologist. He left his iconic role as "Chef" on "South Park" after they ripped on the cult with the Trapped In The Closet episode.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | July 13, 2020 5:21 PM |
R254, it pains me because I love his music to this day. But he was a scientology nut. It's a shame.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | July 13, 2020 5:28 PM |
So someone on here is really making the Candy Spelling trolling his schtick now? Blocked. No one has time for that.
In 2008, a woman in her 60s carried her own grandchildren because her daughter couldn't carry the offspring herself. That lady is still kicking. Maybe genetics makes it more dangerous for some than others.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | July 13, 2020 5:28 PM |
R168 That looks like a ridiculously fun pre-Lifetime network movie. I'm in. I need to find this film online so I can revel in the camp. I live for this shit.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | July 13, 2020 5:28 PM |
$ceintos really are dutiful when it comes to quitting a job for the organization. .Michele Stafford left Y&R when they rehired some actor who had left the organization, then she left GH when they did a cult story with some similarities to the organization. Elisabeth Moss walked out of some awards show, I don't recall why, maybe to do with Leah Remini.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | July 13, 2020 5:29 PM |
Now Kelly is with the son she and John killed.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | July 13, 2020 5:30 PM |
Your wish is my command, r250.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 260 | July 13, 2020 5:30 PM |
One kid who died unnecessarily and another disabled and parked somewhere out of sight with 'relatives'. Lovely woman, though.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | July 13, 2020 5:33 PM |
r256 I think it's the drugs used to make her produce eggs after her body is getting sluggish about it (due to her age), not necessarily the hormones needed to carry a pregnancy to term.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | July 13, 2020 5:33 PM |
On the topic of hormones/estrogen, can you imagine the high dosage that had to use so the MJ from Shahs of the Sunset could push out kid? I picture these treatments occurring at the LA Zoo....
It's a shame about Kelly; aside from the youngest kid, she left a 20 year old daughter. That's way too young to lose your mom.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 263 | July 13, 2020 5:39 PM |
It’s terrible that I do this I know (but it’s DL) but whenever a celebrity or spouse of a celebrity (like Kobe, or Amanda Kloots) dies I keep refreshing their IG to see how fast their followers are spiking. I think Kelly’s have tripled so far.
Yes, I’m very much aware that she would rather be alive. But the world has a morbid fascination I guess.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | July 13, 2020 5:42 PM |
A cousin of mine got pregnant at age 44 the natural way, and completely unexpectedly. She thought she was too old to get pregnant. It was the shock of her life.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | July 13, 2020 5:46 PM |
John has locked himself in the “massage room” with a “friend” and won’t come out.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 266 | July 13, 2020 5:49 PM |
R265 - my grandmother gave birth at 44. My mom was a senior in high school when she was told she was going to have a baby brother or sister.
That being said - may grandmother also suffered breast cancer. She had her first bout in her early 50's, and when it came back in her late 60's, she passed within a year from it. I miss her so much. She was one of my favorite people on this earth.
She never had any type of fertility treatments obviously - but she did have a late in life pregnancy
by Anonymous | reply 267 | July 13, 2020 5:52 PM |
For those of you clutching your pearls about patient confidentiality - people who work in the medical profession are the biggest gossips you will ever know.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | July 13, 2020 5:59 PM |
R56 Meg Ryan didn't even have an uncanny resemblance to Meg Ryan in the 90s, so there wouldn't have been a conflict.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | July 13, 2020 6:01 PM |
"I think she might have had a bigger career in the 90s if it hadn't been for her uncanny resemblance to Meg Ryan, a much bigger star at the time."
She was much prettier than Meg Ryan ever was
by Anonymous | reply 270 | July 13, 2020 6:04 PM |
"As long as we're telling women not to fuck around with taking estrogen, will somebody please enlighten the MTFs? Thank you."
The Breitbart trolls really have to make everything about trans people, don't they?
by Anonymous | reply 271 | July 13, 2020 6:07 PM |
They tried to make her a top billing star in the late 90s. She was good actress but best playing a bitch. She was too pretty and symmetrical, she needed a quirk but didn’t have one.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | July 13, 2020 6:09 PM |
So this is sad to me because I watched like 3 videos of her children on TikTok. Why Jon Travolta thought it was a good idea to allow his 10-year-old son to have a TikTok is beyond me, but it popped up in my thread. Anyway, she had young children so I imagine it's terribly hard right now.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | July 13, 2020 6:10 PM |
"Men were also willing to get married because women didn’t spread their legs wide open on first dates. Why buy the cow when the milk is free?"
Weird to see such far right, misogynistic crap on a gay board.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | July 13, 2020 6:11 PM |
Should Larry David write the obit?
by Anonymous | reply 275 | July 13, 2020 6:12 PM |
Some say that Kelly was of the Lesbyterian persuasia, which would explain why things worked out so well for everyone.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | July 13, 2020 6:13 PM |
R267, I'm sorry for the loss of your grandmother. My mom had one (unexpectedly) at 40 and is still going at 68. My paternal grandmother had one (very unexpectedly) at 43, and she lived to 71 (heart attack).
by Anonymous | reply 277 | July 13, 2020 6:23 PM |
Man, the clams are really out in force for Kelly. There was some good gossip about them on here a few years. Travolta was ready to leave after Jett died - not just Kelly but Scientology, too. She got pregnant and that the Scieno's threatened to spill all his secrets (and settlements) if he walked. Kelly sounded much more like Travolta's handler than anything else.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | July 13, 2020 6:24 PM |
I liked her in Citizen Ruth.
Her career was all downhill for there.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | July 13, 2020 6:25 PM |
The man child phenomenon isn’t about easy access to sex.
If given the option, straight men prefer to never grow up. For whatever reason, society has been giving them that option for the past 25-30 years. There are a lot of factors.
I live in a fairly blue collar— yet expensive— suburb of LA. I see a lot of families with SAH Moms and 3-4 children. They start young. It’s like a time warp.
My point is I too would have thought women having children later in life was the norm until I lived here.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | July 13, 2020 6:26 PM |
"My point is I too would have thought women having children later in life was the norm until I lived here."
Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much. Stats show people are waiting longer to have kids. And it's kind of funny to hear gay men call straight men manchildren, since the manchild/peter pan accusations have been thrown at gay men, too
by Anonymous | reply 281 | July 13, 2020 6:28 PM |
Poor Kelly, they are dragging Naya’s body out of the lake as we speak, she will now be eclipsed just like Farrah was by Michael Jackson and any light that was shined on her life will now be directed elsewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | July 13, 2020 6:29 PM |
R280, it's interesting. In the city where I live, it seems like the trend is to marry and have kids after age 30. But in the rural suburbs where I grew up, people knocked each other within a year or two of graduating high school, got married, moved into a house within a couple of miles of their parents, and then shit out another two to three more kids. And in many cases, the mother stays at home, while the father supports the family on a single, blue-collar job paycheck. Somehow they always have new cars and other expensive toys.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | July 13, 2020 6:30 PM |
Naya is queen. Ive been listening to her sing "Valerie" and crying for 20 minites.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | July 13, 2020 6:31 PM |
R282, it's like Princess Diana and Mother Theresa all over again.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | July 13, 2020 6:31 PM |
"But in the rural suburbs where I grew up, people knocked each other within a year or two of graduating high school, got married, moved into a house within a couple of miles of their parents, and then shit out another two to three more kids. And in many cases, the mother stays at home, while the father supports the family on a single, blue-collar job paycheck. Somehow they always have new cars and other expensive toys."
Poorer women tend to have kids at younger ages than middle-class or upper-class ones. I'm from Pennsyltucky so I know plenty of women who got knocked up at 19 or 20. None of them have new cars or "expensive toys" and the women all work because they have to.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | July 13, 2020 6:35 PM |
Meg Ryan was a huge Star and didn’t have any quirks — before she fucked her face
by Anonymous | reply 288 | July 13, 2020 6:37 PM |
Kelly Preston obviously felt she needed to replace the child who died. Having a kid at that age is a huge risk.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | July 13, 2020 6:40 PM |
[quote]For those of you clutching your pearls about patient confidentiality
This place has really gone to the dogs, hasn’t it? Must be all the frauen. If anything, the poster who knew about Preston’s cancer should be chastised for not telling DL right away.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | July 13, 2020 6:43 PM |
I disagree, r288. I think Meg became a Star because she *did* have her own quirky appeal.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | July 13, 2020 6:49 PM |
R283 It's so much cheaper to raise a family on a single blue-collar paycheck in rural America. The cost of living is significantly less. If people in big cities could afford to start families younger and live on one paycheck, they'd probably do it, but it's not economically feasible for most.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | July 13, 2020 6:50 PM |
I feel bad for Kelly and John's children, and of course John himself, but Kelly was a piece of work. When Jett was alive, many people in the Disability and Autism community tried desperately to advocate for their son to no avail. Many observed that Kelly herself, labeled Jett as a " Suppressive" and left his care to others. Finally, when he died, people spoke out. Tragic.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 295 | July 13, 2020 6:51 PM |
[quote][R168] That looks like a ridiculously fun pre-Lifetime network movie. I'm in. I need to find this film online so I can revel in the camp. I live for this shit.
It really is a hoot of a film.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | July 13, 2020 6:55 PM |
Yes, they didn't get much backlash for their lack of treatment for the son. Perhaps this subject should be cross referenced on the active "Celebrities who have gotten a free pass" thread.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | July 13, 2020 6:57 PM |
There's a big difference between having a baby in early 40s vs. late 40s. She was 48 or so when she gave birth, maybe 47 when she conceived. Brigitte Nielsen supposedly had a baby at 55; Janet Jackson was 50. This is crazy.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | July 13, 2020 7:04 PM |
The older a person gets, the greater the chance of having a retarded child. And this goes for men, too. Older seed can cause retarded kids.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | July 13, 2020 7:41 PM |
R295, you missed the post upthread—they did have him on anti seizure medicine but it stopped working. And the parents got him treatment for his autism as well.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | July 13, 2020 7:55 PM |
The Scieno stuff was unfortunate, but she seemed like a really lovely person regardless.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | July 13, 2020 8:08 PM |
My buttons on the right (WW, FF. etc) have been missing for awhile now.
Does anyone else have this problem?
by Anonymous | reply 302 | July 13, 2020 8:14 PM |
Don't you find it amazing that John Travolta managed for years to successfully cover up the illness of his now deceased child and the illness of his now deceased wife, but hasn't managed to cover up his love of the cock?
by Anonymous | reply 303 | July 13, 2020 8:20 PM |
[quote]she will now be eclipsed just like Farrah was by Michael Jackson
Kelly was much more famous than some TV actress.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | July 13, 2020 8:28 PM |
99% of the population has never heard of that Rivera girl, as sad as her death is. Kelly Preston was around for years, was in some memorable films, and was married to Hollywood royalty.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | July 13, 2020 8:40 PM |
R305 I'm over 40 & haven't seen any of KP's films.
I'm more familiar with Naya.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | July 13, 2020 8:45 PM |
^^Because you're a gay guy who watched Glee. Again, Kelly Preston is much more well-known to the public at large.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | July 13, 2020 8:46 PM |
Girls, girls, they’re both dead and very dramatically so, let’s let them be remembered by any and all who want to do so.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | July 13, 2020 8:50 PM |
Suck my fucking cock, Mrs. Garrett.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | July 13, 2020 8:52 PM |
Ghouliana Rancic is probably shitting herself, she’s been stuffing herself full of chemicals for years to try and have a kid.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | July 13, 2020 9:01 PM |
Now that I think about it, John’s decision to finally embrace his baldness could have been his way of supporting Kelly after she inevitably began to lose her hair.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | July 13, 2020 9:11 PM |
[quote] she will now be eclipsed just like Farrah was by Michael Jackson
[quote] Kelly was much more famous than some TV actress.
Farrah Fawcett is / was more famous than Kelly Preston.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | July 13, 2020 9:22 PM |
One of my favorite campy trashy reads is Marilu Henner's aautobiovraphy "By All Means Keep Moving." The woman has sex with everyone everywhere. The thing that is super duper fishy and annoying - her mom stop references to " Johnny. " They toured in "GREASE" and she says they were inseparable best friends, siblings, lovers for years. She gushed all of their intricacies but makes no going what do ever of his bisexuality or homosexuality. Plus very little mention of his scientology. The way she writes it is that for years they were Bogus & Bacall, Scarlett & Rhett etc. She wrote the book after Travolta was married to Kelly Preston - but no mention of Kelly Preston. Travolta is always having photos and memories with One and Kirstie Alley but never a mention of Marilu Henner. I wonder if Marilu is an SO - SUPRESSIVE PERSON.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | July 13, 2020 9:33 PM |
Ok I wrote the above post. I am on a new tablet and the autocorrect totally mangled my post - please don't rip my face off - I slink away in shame .....
by Anonymous | reply 316 | July 13, 2020 9:39 PM |
[quote] Kelly Preston was around for years, was in some memorable films, and was married to Hollywood royalty.
My husband is obsessed with Travolta's movies and when I told him Kelly Preston died, he had no idea who she was. Just because someone is famous doesn't mean their spouse is well known. I struggled to think of any movie she was featured in and couldn't come up with anything.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | July 13, 2020 9:42 PM |
This is so sad. I hope she had a happy life despite her husband being a masseur-molesting homo.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | July 13, 2020 9:47 PM |
R33, they should shut down breeding for all over 40. Older men's sperm has high rates of autism, schizophrenia and types of leukemia.
by Anonymous | reply 320 | July 13, 2020 9:49 PM |
r316, that's OK, "Bogus & Bacall" was pretty funny.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | July 13, 2020 9:50 PM |
I knew something was up when Travolta quietly sold his Brentwood home to his next-door neighbor earlier this year and then bought a much smaller house in Calabasas. John and Kelly knew she wasn't going to make it and were preparing him for a life alone.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 322 | July 13, 2020 9:50 PM |
Why did she stay married to a gay guy for so many years? I mean, she was not one of those homely women who couldn't get a man. I'm sure she could have found a man who was into her. Strange woman.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | July 13, 2020 9:51 PM |
R323 $$$$$$$$$$$$$, that's why.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | July 13, 2020 9:57 PM |
I wonder if she had triple-negative breast cancer. FWIW, I am a 45-year-old female and have lost 2 friends my age to that specific breast cancer category in the past 5 years. Neither of them had taken fertility hormones, but the cancer came on suddenly, very aggressively, and nothing the doctors could throw at it seemed to make any difference.
One of them had two very young kids (the oldest was 6 at the time) and had hoped--after trying everything under the sun--to be accepted into a clinical drug trial, but once the cancer spread to her liver (about a year after her initial diagnosis), that was pretty much the end.
I hope Kelly's struggle ended peacefully, and my heart goes out to the kids. It's never easy to lose your mom.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | July 13, 2020 10:02 PM |
I think "Bogus and Bacall" should be our official nickname for bearded couples and showmances
by Anonymous | reply 326 | July 13, 2020 10:03 PM |
Kelly Preston had a very comfortable lifestyle with John Travolta. This is a 2005 Architectural Digest article about their house in Florida, yes, Florida. Anyway, I think JT owned / flew some type of full-sized plane, like a Boeing 707 (six seats, total, across, in economy).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 327 | July 13, 2020 10:04 PM |
I would assume that most straight men who grew up in the 80s would have masturbated to her at some point. She was in a lot of teen movies back then. She bared all in a movie called Mischief, which I watched because it had the awkwardly cute Doug Mckeon. She was more well known for playing moms in her later career.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | July 13, 2020 10:04 PM |
Really guys? I know it's a thing to be pointlessly bitchy but you have gone beyond that. It's really disgusting, the comments I'm reading here after someone died. Regardless of her beliefs or standing in the way of John "coming out", can any of you just offer condolences and be respectful? I'm sure you'd want the same for yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | July 13, 2020 10:04 PM |
Isn't this also how Dixie Wynn died? She was always promoting steroid usage as a way to stay young.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | July 13, 2020 10:06 PM |
r329, you're right, I regretted what I wrote as soon as I sent it.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | July 13, 2020 10:08 PM |
so many IVF experts on this board! At 47, there is basically no way she was using her own eggs for a pregnancy -- past a certain point, ovaries cant just be "kick started", no matter how many hormone injections. She likely took a short course of progesterone before and after the transfer of a donor egg embryo and thats it. Same goes for J. Jackson and others pregnant after 43 or so.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | July 13, 2020 10:10 PM |
Do you think that was the case for Elizabeth Edwards, r332?
by Anonymous | reply 333 | July 13, 2020 10:12 PM |
Also, she could have used hormones/medical intervention to "prime" her ovaries for extracting eggs, then reimplanting after fertilization. That's a thing, isn't it?
by Anonymous | reply 334 | July 13, 2020 10:14 PM |
Was Kelly the one that got them into Scientology or was it Travolta?
If it was her, then perhaps he leave and come out now that she's dead.
Or simply just continue as he's been going for decades.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | July 13, 2020 10:18 PM |
Americans have a baby /pregnancy obsession that snookers a lot of people into becoming biological parents at all costs. And there's been a resurgence of pressure to have larger families. Families that stop at one or two usually seem healthier and more stable, even accounting for income . Europeans attitude is a bit more pragmatic. If it happens, great, but it's not something that one absolutely must do.
by Anonymous | reply 337 | July 13, 2020 10:19 PM |
[quote] I knew something was up when Travolta quietly sold his Brentwood home to his next-door neighbor earlier this year and then bought a much smaller house in Calabasas. John and Kelly knew she wasn't going to make it and were preparing him for a life alone.
R322, I don't think Travolta is preparing for "a life alone." He still has a child under 18, plus, I think he will find someone else. Whether or not he will come out as gay or bisexual, I don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 338 | July 13, 2020 10:20 PM |
[333] probably also the case for Elizabeth Edwards. [334] that's definitely a thing but what I'm saying is that even with that kind of hormonal intervention, a 47 year old either wouldn't produce any eggs or would produce bad eggs that would not create a viable embryo. Any Reproductive Endocrinologist knows this and a responsible one would strongly urge a 47 year old to use donor eggs. Many would refuse to treat a woman of that age unless they used donor eggs.
That being said, I wasn't her doctor. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | July 13, 2020 10:22 PM |
R323, because he's A-list. Since 1977, he's always been A-list, even during his career lull in the late 80s. And he's hot. Even in the late 90s, he was still handsome, and if you squinted, you could still see his 1977 face. And he's rich.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | July 13, 2020 10:23 PM |
He probably gave the proceeds to Scientology. Tom Cruise did the same thing a few years ago. He sold off almost all of his property and is allegedly letting the clams "manage" his money. This all happened after the cult went really went off the rails and their membership dried up. They're not getting the income they used to get, so are bleeding their stars dry. Suckers...
by Anonymous | reply 341 | July 13, 2020 10:23 PM |
R325, is that the type that Angelina Jolie dodged with pro-active surgery?
by Anonymous | reply 342 | July 13, 2020 10:23 PM |
Elisabeth Moss will be his next wife/handler. She has to begin pay back for her recent career boon.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | July 13, 2020 10:24 PM |
Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but I also have to say that "Bogus and Bacall" is brilliant. I think we should try to make it happen.
Carry on....
by Anonymous | reply 344 | July 13, 2020 10:26 PM |
"We had it all, just like Bogus and Bacall....."
by Anonymous | reply 345 | July 13, 2020 10:30 PM |
We sometimes forget how hot he was at his peak. He was the biggest actor of his generation too. Imagine one of today's A-list actors hooking-up with guys like Travolta did. It seem unimaginable, doesn't it?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 346 | July 13, 2020 10:33 PM |
She's been dead to me from the waist down for years.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | July 13, 2020 10:39 PM |
R325 You lost us at : I am a 45-year-old female.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | July 13, 2020 10:42 PM |
R340 Travolta isn’t now or hasn’t been A list since the mid 90s or so. It was thanks to Tarantino that he brought him back nearly from the dead (Look Who’s Talking not withstanding) and got him another Oscar nom. Battlefield Earth sunk his career. He’s only had one bright spot in 20 years and that was The People Vs OJ Simpson. Nicolas Cage and him seem to be in a competition to see who can make the most shitty films currently. Travolta has coasted on four films; Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy and Pulp Fiction for a long ass time.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | July 13, 2020 10:42 PM |
R349, don't forget about FaceOff, Phenonemon, etc...Not great movies, but they were popular.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | July 13, 2020 10:44 PM |
R302, my screen looks normal. I just WWed you at R351.
by Anonymous | reply 352 | July 13, 2020 10:51 PM |
I had a neighbor who was a $cientologi$t, brilliant man but *very* weird. He got colon cancer and, according to his "religion" treated it with massive doses of Vitamin C. Didn't last long, withered away to a bag of bones.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | July 13, 2020 10:55 PM |
I had a neighbor who was a $cientologi$t, brilliant man but *very* weird. He got colon cancer and, according to his "religion" treated it with massive doses of Vitamin C. Didn't last long, withered away to a bag of bones.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | July 13, 2020 10:55 PM |
Yeah, John Travolta wasn't *always* A-list. Usually, once you're A-list, you stay A-list. Travolta is the exception. He started out with an explosion (Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy). Then there were those stupid "Look Who's Talking" movies. Then Quentin Tarantino revived JT's career with the overrated (IMO) "Pulp Fiction." The Gotti movie is / was a money-grab, IMO. Terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | July 13, 2020 11:04 PM |
I thought she was the prettiest girl in the world in Twins.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | July 13, 2020 11:06 PM |
R352 Are you a paying member?
by Anonymous | reply 357 | July 13, 2020 11:08 PM |
"Scientology rocks!" Ca-ching.
But I did like her in "Fat Actress" and "Citizen Ruth".
Didn't Charlie Sheen shoot her in the stomach?
by Anonymous | reply 358 | July 13, 2020 11:12 PM |
r337, people aren't having larger families. The birth rate is going down.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | July 13, 2020 11:13 PM |
What was her original religion before converting to Scientology?
by Anonymous | reply 360 | July 13, 2020 11:14 PM |
Joan Prather got Travolta into Scientology so he was there first. She was a wild child and married to another cute actor before him.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | July 13, 2020 11:15 PM |
[quote]R12 Kelly took hormones to get pregnant at age 47. The result: A baby and death from breast cancer.
Is that the autistic one they shut away because they were ashamed of him... and then died without medical attention?
by Anonymous | reply 362 | July 13, 2020 11:23 PM |
Pulp Fiction is a wonderful film and if you don't know that, you are a fool. Travolta had a few popular films after Pulp. He is still a movie star in spite of his closeted, Scientology self.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | July 13, 2020 11:27 PM |
Pulp Fiction is a wonderful film and if you don't know that, you are a fool. Travolta had a few popular films after Pulp. He is still a movie star in spite of his closeted, Scientology self.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | July 13, 2020 11:27 PM |
I am totally opening a bar called “Bogus and Bacall.”
by Anonymous | reply 365 | July 13, 2020 11:28 PM |
I thought they only had Jet and their daughter, born after Jet died.
by Anonymous | reply 366 | July 13, 2020 11:29 PM |
I thought they only had Jet and their daughter, born after Jet died.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | July 13, 2020 11:30 PM |
Jett, daughter, then Jett replacement baby.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | July 13, 2020 11:35 PM |
[quote]What was her original religion before converting to Scientology?
Zoroastrianism, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | July 14, 2020 12:09 AM |
Quick reminder: Scientology was too crazy for Charles Manson AND Michael Jackson.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | July 14, 2020 1:22 AM |
R327 His plane is an ex-Qantas 707 which he bought and restored. He’s some sort of Qantas ambassador and still flies it out here (Australia) for special events.
by Anonymous | reply 371 | July 14, 2020 1:44 AM |
He flies out to Australia to pick up hot twinks who enjoy going "down under"
by Anonymous | reply 372 | July 14, 2020 1:49 AM |
[quote] His plane is an ex-Qantas 707 which he bought and restored. He’s some sort of Qantas ambassador and still flies it out here (Australia) for special events.
That must cost an ungodly amount of money. I assume Qantas pays for the fuel?
by Anonymous | reply 373 | July 14, 2020 2:04 AM |
Qantas must pay all the fuel costs if he's an ambassador.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | July 14, 2020 2:50 AM |
He will never come out as long as he is a clam.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | July 14, 2020 3:37 AM |
As easy as Travolta is to dunk on, especially for us gays, I've rarely, maybe never, heard a bad word spoken about him. He appears to be one of the genuinely good guys in Hollywood, and no matter what their marriage was or wasn't behind closed doors, it doesn't mean they didn't love each other.
So, RIP beautiful lady.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | July 14, 2020 3:40 AM |
I heard that Travolta had oral sex against Jeff Conaway's will (while he was asleep on set) back in the 70s & it was the cause of Jeff's problems afterwards.
Others have said it happened in the 90s (maybe Conaway forgave him & it happened again later?).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 377 | July 14, 2020 4:11 AM |
Jeff Conaway was on "Celebrity Rehab" (Dr. Drew). IMO, JC had tons of problems, starting from childhood. It sounded like JC was the subject of child pron when he was little.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | July 14, 2020 4:39 AM |
For some reason her death and the comments on DL have shown me how toxic DL is. Well I've always known DL was toxic, but tried to overlook it. I hope you people are not what you project yourselves to be on DL. Anonymous board, blah blah blah. It really speaks volumes of who are you are human beings.
by Anonymous | reply 379 | July 14, 2020 4:40 AM |
*as human beings. BTW, fuck the Oh Dear bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | July 14, 2020 4:41 AM |
"As easy as Travolta is to dunk on, especially for us gays, I've rarely, maybe never, heard a bad word spoken about him. He appears to be one of the genuinely good guys in Hollywood, and no matter what their marriage was or wasn't behind closed doors, it doesn't mean they didn't love each other."
You need to have a chat with the masseurs he harassed
by Anonymous | reply 381 | July 14, 2020 4:44 AM |
I don’t even know, does Scientology believe in a heaven and hell?
by Anonymous | reply 382 | July 14, 2020 4:47 AM |
She was gorgeous but at first I wasn't sure who it was. I thought she was Calvin Klein's wife.
Not to toot my own horn, but I was discussing the problem of women waiting too long to get pregnant a few days ago. I blanked out on what the original topic was but it was starting to be discussed. I want credit!!
A lot of good points have been brought up. Men not wanting to get married. Women wanting everything. You can raise kids without having a ton of money. Hormones shots could be causing problems. And so on and so on.
by Anonymous | reply 383 | July 14, 2020 4:53 AM |
I thought if you were $ciento you didn't die.
So are Anne Archer, Travolta, Kirstie Alley and Jenna Elfman all freaking out and refusing to bury her?
Cuz you know $ciento's don't die right?
by Anonymous | reply 384 | July 14, 2020 5:07 AM |
Do they get their own planet, or is that just the Mormons?
by Anonymous | reply 385 | July 14, 2020 5:20 AM |
playwright Wendy Wasserstein had invitro treatments to at like 50 and died shortly after giving birth.
Why do they do these treatments on older women if they are a cancer risk?
by Anonymous | reply 386 | July 14, 2020 6:45 AM |
I see the clams are here wagging their fingers at us.
by Anonymous | reply 387 | July 14, 2020 9:06 AM |
I read her last book when it came out, r386. I liked it so much I researched what else she had written and was horrified to learn she was already dead.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | July 14, 2020 9:10 AM |
Did Adrienne Barbeau use fertilization shots to have her twins at 50?
by Anonymous | reply 389 | July 14, 2020 11:30 AM |
Remember ‘You'll Never Spa In This Town Again’ by Robert Randolph
by Anonymous | reply 390 | July 14, 2020 2:32 PM |
Wow, I just looked up Wendy Wasserstein after seeing her mentioned above. She did IVF in 1999; I don't think much was known about the dangers of the hormones at that point. Also her cancer was lymphoma instead of breast cancer; I'm not sure there's a link between the two.
After Wendy died in 2006 (age 55), her six-year old child was taken in by Wendy's brother, Bruce. Bruce then died in 2009. (Bruce had six kids of his own, and at the time of his death, he was married to Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law.) I don't know where Wendy's kid went at that point, but Wendy's sister died in 2014. At that point, the child had no parents, no siblings, no aunts and uncles. (Wendy didn't publicly identify the bio dad.) That's a lot of instability for a young teenager.
If you're going to have a kid past 40, make sure you have a partner who will take care of the kid if something happens to you. And, if possible, have a second child, so the siblings will have each other.
by Anonymous | reply 391 | July 14, 2020 4:54 PM |
R391, I can finish that gossip thread: Wendy left her daughter, Lucy, to be raised by Bruce and his wife, the elegant Frenchwoman Claude Becker. But just two years later, he divorced her — he had knocked up a young business student and simultaneously started dating another woman, whom he would soon remarry— and another year after that, he was dead of a heart attack.
Another ex-wife might have thrown up her hands and said, "This man is no longer my husband, so his niece is no longer my responsibility." But throughout all of that upheaval, Claude remained a steadfast aunt and guardian for Lucy. She loved her as much as she loved her own sons, who were the same age as their cousin, and the three had a happy, private upbringing and education in New York. Lucy is now a junior at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, and appears remarkably well-adjusted. There is no doubt that Claude is the reason.
by Anonymous | reply 392 | July 14, 2020 7:54 PM |
R391, agree with what you said except this:
[quote] And, if possible, have a second child, so the siblings will have each other.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | July 14, 2020 8:00 PM |
Has Adele Dazeem been reached for comment?
by Anonymous | reply 394 | July 14, 2020 8:07 PM |
Is she still dead today, or in Scientology do they rise again in a day or two or three later?
by Anonymous | reply 395 | July 14, 2020 8:09 PM |
I had to look up this Wasserstein business, and apparently, Lucy still has an uncle Abner and her grandmother Lola.
[quote] In addition to her daughter, Wasserstein was survived by her mother and three siblings—Abner Wasserstein, businessman Bruce Wasserstein (died in 2009) and Wilburton Inn owner Georgette Wasserstein Levis (died in 2014).
So she's not completely without family.
Also, the Wassersteins (Wendy's mother and father) were rich, so it's not like Lucy is a poor orphan. She probably lives a good life, especially if her mother left her all her money.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 396 | July 14, 2020 8:14 PM |
One assumes that Lucy came with a nice trust fund and ongoing residuals from the estate to help raise her right?
by Anonymous | reply 397 | July 14, 2020 8:19 PM |
Wasserstein had some kind of super secretive fertility treatment. The regular kind didn't work so she tried some new kind and told no one about it.
I read a bio of her. She had a complicated relationship with motherhood. Her mother kept pressuring her to have a baby. (would call daily and say she should have one.) She then tried to have one with William Ivey Long but wouldn't take care of herself physically so she the treatments didn't take. He eventually got fed up with her ambivilence and stopped participating.
Then years later she started this other method on her own.
and yes Adriene Barbeau did have fertility treatments too.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | July 14, 2020 8:33 PM |
Do you know exactly what "wouldn't take of herself" entailed, r398. I'm just nosy.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | July 14, 2020 8:38 PM |
[quote]Wasserstein had some kind of super secretive fertility treatment. The regular kind didn't work so she tried some new kind and told no one about it.
That's Mother Nature telling you to just give up. Instead these women fuck with their bodies and disaster happens.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | July 14, 2020 9:35 PM |
Adrienne Barbeau is 75 years old. Her twins are now 24. She seems to have escaped the fertility drug curse.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | July 14, 2020 10:27 PM |
It's a bit hysterical to imply that every woman who has IVF or HRT will develop cancer. People are warned of the risk. Do you think that Mariah, JLo, Celine and others all gave birth to twins at 40 naturally? I get that's the point, but my sister in law has IVF and hormone shots to produce eggs because Huntington's Disease is in her family. Each egg must be genetically tested before it's reimplanted. I say adopt, but she is 32 and they want biological children. Life is a risk.
No one wants to leave their children. Kelly was lovely. That is all.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | July 14, 2020 10:45 PM |
Totally agree R402. I was being facetious in my post :-)
by Anonymous | reply 403 | July 14, 2020 10:53 PM |
[quote]For some reason her death and the comments on DL have shown me how toxic DL is. Well I've always known DL was toxic, but tried to overlook it. I hope you people are not what you project yourselves to be on DL. Anonymous board, blah blah blah. It really speaks volumes of who are you are human beings.
Then FUCK OFF back to iVillage.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | July 14, 2020 11:03 PM |
What is up with these women like her and Elizabeth Edwards who have an older child die, and then desperately try to have a late-in-life pregnancy to replace the dead child?
They would have been better off appropriately grieving and learning to accept their child’s death, rather than trying to force their menopausal body to get pregnant.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | July 14, 2020 11:25 PM |
[quote]Ghouliana Rancic is probably shitting herself, she’s been stuffing herself full of chemicals for years to try and have a kid.
Ghouliana already had both tits removed in 2012, so she’s pretty much in the clear as far as getting breast cancer again.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | July 14, 2020 11:29 PM |
You sound miserable R404.
by Anonymous | reply 407 | July 14, 2020 11:32 PM |
She probably voted for Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | July 14, 2020 11:36 PM |
She probably voted for Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 409 | July 14, 2020 11:36 PM |
I think Travolta is a Republican.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | July 15, 2020 12:08 AM |
Kelly was great in this hilarious 1992 episode of Tales From the Crypt:
by Anonymous | reply 412 | July 15, 2020 12:58 AM |
r399 she was flying all around the country doing speeches at colleges and not taking it easy like the doctors suggested. The father felt she was subconsciously sabotaging the treatments and it ended their friendship. He had become excited about the parenting arrangement but felt she didn't really want a child.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | July 15, 2020 1:05 AM |
or use a surrogate r405. I'm sure some Scientologist would have been delighted to carry a baby for two of their most famous members.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | July 15, 2020 1:07 AM |
Will Travolta come out now? Or will Scientology not allow him to?
His film career is over and now Preston has passed away there is no reason to stay in the closet any longer. It would be such a relief to him.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | July 15, 2020 1:15 AM |
Kelly Preston was never pregnant at 47. They used a surrogate.
by Anonymous | reply 417 | July 15, 2020 1:17 AM |
[quote] What is up with these women like her and Elizabeth Edwards who have an older child die, and then desperately try to have a late-in-life pregnancy to replace the dead child? They would have been better off appropriately grieving and learning to accept their child’s death, rather than trying to force their menopausal body to get pregnant.
What's even sadder is that these women had children who survived the deaths of their siblings. I.e., the parents were not childless after the deaths. Did the surviving sibling(s) feel like they weren't enough?
by Anonymous | reply 418 | July 15, 2020 1:47 AM |
I knew a couple whose son died in a car accident. The son was in the car with his father, and the father survived. They have another son, but nothing fills the void. They ended up adopting a a girl from Pakistan. Even years after that, the mother was always the saddest looking woman I had ever seen.
by Anonymous | reply 419 | July 15, 2020 1:57 AM |
[quote]Kelly Preston was never pregnant at 47. They used a surrogate.
Are you saying she faked her pregnancy? She's not Janet Jackson, or Beyonce.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | July 15, 2020 2:19 AM |
R420, she never appeared pregnant in public; used a surrogate so there was no pregnancy to fake. They announced the birth of their son, and that was it.
by Anonymous | reply 421 | July 15, 2020 2:22 AM |
Why do you think she wasn't seen in public when she was pregnant? Here's a photo of her pregnant in 2010.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 422 | July 15, 2020 3:06 AM |
Maybe she just stuffed a pillow in her dress like Nicole Kidman and Beyonce did
by Anonymous | reply 423 | July 15, 2020 3:19 AM |
Possibly a prosthesis. Angelina Jolie and Beyonce have been accused of faking pregnancies.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 424 | July 15, 2020 3:20 AM |
I think if she was faking she would have chosen a more flattering profile. She definitely looks pregnant here, in terms of her face and massive bosom growth.
Did someone say upthread that she had frozen embryos and used one?
I think sometimes grieving parents want their surviving child to have a sibling. Or to bring back some joy into their lives.
Losing a child is hell on earth, so I tend to not judge how they handle themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 425 | July 15, 2020 3:54 AM |
Young John Travolta was something to behold. Gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 426 | July 15, 2020 3:55 AM |
Reminder: Travolta and Kelly Preston were the first "Bogus and Bacall".
Who are some other Bogus and Bacalls? Hugh Jackman and that Debra woman? The former Mr. Tom Cruise and Mimi/Nicole/Katie?
by Anonymous | reply 427 | July 15, 2020 4:00 AM |
r427, Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick!
by Anonymous | reply 428 | July 15, 2020 4:02 AM |
She seemed like a lovely person.
by Anonymous | reply 429 | July 15, 2020 4:02 AM |
I loved that episode as a kid, R413. Also loved Twins and she was very pretty in both.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | July 15, 2020 4:10 AM |
r64 She wasn't hurt or embarrassed by tabloids. She was a scientologist who probably hadn't stepped into a supermarket in 30 years. The Travoltas live like billionaires. And she had a (most likely) very satisfying love life of her own independent of the marriage. It wasnt a secret.
Kelly Preston won life. Good for her.
by Anonymous | reply 432 | July 15, 2020 4:39 AM |
[quote]Kelly Preston won life.
Except she lost about 25 more years of it.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | July 15, 2020 4:41 AM |
Do Scientologist have cemeteries or do they just do burial’s at sea off Seaorg?
by Anonymous | reply 434 | July 15, 2020 4:42 AM |
I remember Travolta being on Oprah talking about how he works out with his trainer at like 2 AM or so.
Preston called into the show and complimented Travolta on his new body (he was thin then) but it was like she was a stranger who rarely saw him. Where was she during his nightly workouts with the trainer.
by Anonymous | reply 435 | July 15, 2020 5:02 AM |
Maybe in the future people will just be able to clone a departed child.
by Anonymous | reply 436 | July 15, 2020 5:11 AM |
Bogus and Bacall = Patrick Swayze and Jilly Mack
by Anonymous | reply 437 | July 15, 2020 5:58 AM |
Jilly Mack is married to Tom Selleck r437
by Anonymous | reply 438 | July 15, 2020 6:01 AM |
The Bogus and Bacall thing only works if they're both famous. Like Tom and Nicole. Or Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer.
by Anonymous | reply 439 | July 15, 2020 6:04 AM |
Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett always seem a little lavender to me.
by Anonymous | reply 440 | July 15, 2020 6:06 AM |
r439, I think they both have to be actors as well.
by Anonymous | reply 441 | July 15, 2020 6:07 AM |
Is it the third day? Did she rise?
by Anonymous | reply 443 | July 15, 2020 3:15 PM |
Even Ms. Streisand has warm words for Kelly Preston.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 444 | July 17, 2020 6:43 AM |
[quote] Ghouliana already had both tits removed in 2012, so she’s pretty much in the clear as far as getting breast cancer again.
Apparently doctors found a breast on her lump.
by Anonymous | reply 445 | July 17, 2020 12:29 PM |
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